Monday, September 19, 2011

the art of negotiation

Tonight, lying in bed:Me: Lucy, I'm going to go in the other room now.Lucy: No, you need to stay for fifty and one thousand minutes.Me: It sounds like you'd like me to stay longer. How about I stay for another minute?Lucy: Seven minutes.Me: How about three?Lucy: No! Three hundred!Me, sighing: I'll stay for one more minute.Lucy: Okay.